Publication Date
10th/16th century
Publication Place
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Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Subject
Brass formed by drawing, forging and tinning (the tinplating process is known as bleaching or tinning).
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 80 سم؛ القطر: 131 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
م/ ن/ 48
Record ID
object;ISL;pa;Mus01;33;ar
Library Location
Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Date
10th/16th century
Notes
The piece is an anadst (huge bowl) brought from the Khasaki Sultan complex, which is also known as the Amara al-Amira or Al-Takiyya (built around 964 / 1557) and is located in Holy Jerusalem. This complex was built by the owner of Al-Mabarat Khasaki Sultan, and she endowed it with an endowment. This facility is considered the largest social institution in Ottoman Jerusalem, and it provided daily food to the city’s poor, neighbors, students of knowledge, and others deserving of food under an endowment. The number of beneficiaries of this facility has exceeded a thousand per day, which required the provision of large areas for preparing food and large cooking vessels. Despite the changing administrative and political conditions in Palestine over the past centuries, this institution is still carrying out its social function, in part, until today. The Islamic Museum possesses three dishes, all of which were brought from the Khaski Sultan facility. The table shown here is a huge bowl consisting of a copper plate that was rolled in a circular shape to form the body of the table and tied at the meeting point of the two ends. The plate was fixed with sturdy copper nails, and no interlocking or hammering was used as is the case in the manufacture of small pots. The bottom of the bowl was fixed with a series of nails surrounding the area where the bottom meets the body. The bowl had four huge handles for carrying. The body of the bowl was supported by a group of copper supports, some of which formed an extension of the hands fixed with nails from the edge of the bowl to the bottom of its middle, and others were located between each hand. It appears that the bowl was damaged in the middle of its bottom. It was patched with a solid copper plate using copper nails and in the same method that was used in its manufacture. The dust contains an inscription that appears to have been added at a late period, and it reads: “The Endowment of the late Sultan’s mother for the building of Quds Sharif, Amirat Metwally Haji Khalil Agha... Previous Special 1235,” and another date is inscribed next to it, “1161.”
Sample Text
Nazmi Al-Ju'beh “dest” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;pa;Mus01;33;ar
